Books

The list below includes some of the books I have read in the past that helped shape me into who I am today

2017

  • 4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris
  • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – Amy Chua
  • Contagious – Jonah Berger
  • The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
  • The Seducer’s Diary – Soren Kierkegaard
  • The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
  • Attached – Amir Levine
  • I don’t Fucking Care! How to Stop Caring About What People Think About You – Adam Rockman
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big – Scott Adams
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
  • I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education and Changed The World – Christina Lamb
  • In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • Transform Your Habits – James Clear
  • Mastering Creativity – James Clear
  • Symposium – Plato
  • The Language of Emotions – Karla McLaren
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

2018

  • Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman
  • The Restaurant At The End of The Universe – Douglas Adams

2019

  • Life, The Universe and Everything – Douglas Adams
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Douglas Adams
  • Young Zaphod Plays It Safe – Douglas Adams
  • Mostly Harmless -Douglas Adams
  • Living With a Seal Jesse Itzler
  • Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck – Mark Manson
  • Sapiens a Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
  • Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business – Danny Meyer
  • Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
  • Ryoma: Life of a Renaissance Samurai – Romulus Hillsborough

2020

  • The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592-98 – Stephen Turnbull
  • Paper Towns – John Green
  • All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
  • The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  • Your Restaurant Sucks – Donald Burns
  • The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
  • 12 Major World Religions: the Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity’s Most Influential Faiths
  • A Midsummer’s Equation – Keigo Higoshino
  • Prisoner’s of Geography – Tim Marshall
  • Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose – tony Hsieh
  • 100 Baggers – Christopher Meyer

2021

  • Blue Ocean Strategy – W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
  • 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think – Brianna Wiest
  • Business Adventures – John Brooks
  • The Meritocracy Trap – Daniel Markovits
  • Justice-What’s The Right Thing To Do? – Michael J. Sandel
  • The Practice – Seth Godin
  • Think Again – Adam Grant
  • Buy Then Build – Walker Deibel
  • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • HBR’s ten most reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups – Harvard Business Review
  • The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
  • Celery Juice – Anthony William
  • Sway The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

2022

  • HBR Guide to Buying A Small Business – Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
  • Here’s The Deal – Joel Ankney
  • Beautiful Country: A Memoir – Qian Julie Wang
  • My Life – Bill Clinton
  • How To Buy A Business Without Being Had – Jack Gibson
  • 12 Rules For Life – Jordan Peterson
  • Secrets of Six Figure Women – Barbara Stanny
  • The Courage To Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
  • 12 Months To 1 Million – Ryan Daniel Moran
  • Make Your Bed – William H. Mcraven

2023

  • The Complete Guide to Buying a Business Attorney Fred S. Steingold
  • Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin
  • Steal Like An Artist – Austin Kleon
  • Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
  • The Book With No Pictures – B. J. Novak
  • The Adventures of OOK and GLUK – Creators of Captain Underpants
  • No Fear Shakespeare – Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
  • Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
  • Cavemice The Fast and The Frozen – Geronimo Stilton
  • Cavemice Don’t Wake The Dinosaur – Geronimo Stilton
  • Cavemice Shoo, Caveflies! – Geronimo Stilton
  • The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Confidence Game – Maria Konnikova
  • The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allen Poe
  • Homo Deus -Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Gift of the Magi – O. Henry
  • The Ransom of Red Chief – O. Henry
  • Cavemice My Autosaurus Will Win – Geronimo Stilton
  • The Necklace – Guy du Maupassant
  • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County – Mark Twain
  • The Lady of The Tiger – Frank R. Stockton